Here’s another wild tanker goose chase for ya. (have .cam saved somewhere , but need to find which one, in Balkans)
In SP , I was exercising my - dick on dick action with harrier in tanker turns … Me and AI wingman were flight 2 to tank , 1st flight were 3 F-14’s …
So, lead F14 is committing right when we visual on tanker and we follow deep inside 10nm (visual range) … and then just like that whole flight of F14’s dissapear from the sky (some bug at that moment in campaign) … zap ,… tanker boom still down.
Tanker looks like ‘resets’ and begin climbing to some altitude (22k) , . I request to join and tanker affirms … stabilize and make a call … but just cant hit ‘the spot’ , and tanker never lowers the boom … sometimes in turns it seems that he becomes aware of me and it begins lowering the boom but aborts half-way /
Finnaly gave up , goodbye ***hole , (T3) … and then … my wingman never commits to tanker but just rejoins on my wing. wtf? … I guess not thirsty enough…
We went 15nm away … then return to try again … I request … BAM … ctd. whoooah, enough for today.
And that is saved at that position in .cam save, every time I reload that mission , the outcome is the same. -so repeatable.
My guess is that F14 flight which is bugged and disappears. are somehow sitll ‘locked’ to the tanker, why? .
Tanker default circle waypoint is @20k , but he wants to receive my harrier flight @22k ,… but harrier tank @20k in dat. / F14’s tank @22…
So bloody fella still thinks that he has F14 on the line , even after (de aggregate?) ~15nm , and then come back… So all in all , I don’t think that he resets at that point… why… dunno.
Yeah, it is isolated case in that save , but is another interesting ‘chewing gum’ to check ->
Do tanker really resets with deagg (>15nm) in some peculiar circumstances …
(otoh , is really a peculiar case, I’ve never seen whole flight just disappears out of blue sky, and in tanker queue… but it is)